Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia – here's what we know about the disease

By Catherine Loveday, Professor, Neuropsychology, University of Westminster

American actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced.

In 2022, the 67-year-old action movie star was diagnosed with aphasia - difficulty with language and speech. Aphasia can occur for a variety of reasons (most commonly stroke) but for Willis, it is now clear that these speech problems were the early signs of this particularly devastating form of dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for any disease…

Read complete article

~	The Queensland government has interfered with the state’s literary awards – again

~	Major porn sites have blocked Australian users to protest new laws. Will kids be better off?

~	Australia is sending an aircraft and missiles to the Middle East. Does this mean we are entering the war?

~	Politics with Michelle Grattan: Middle East war set to push inflation higher than forecast, warns RBA deputy governor

~	Too valuable to burn? Chemical and plastic industries will rely on oil far longer than motorists

~	Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk

~	Mali: Armed Islamist Group Executes Truck Drivers

~	Ghana's Parliament Revives Dangerous Anti-LGBT Bill

~	Israel’s genocide in Gaza inflicts compounded harms on women and girls

~	Three abortion rights defenders share their stories of hope